HackerThe riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman
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Daniel Kahneman compares pain during an experience with the later evaluation of it. Extending discomfort while improving the ending can move those judgments in opposite directions, making the measured outcome a substantive choice.
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you have made the experiencing self of Patient A worse off, and you have the remembering self of Patient A a lot better off,significant moments and endings. Endings are very, very important and, in this case, the ending dominated.